Earlier today, Congress passed a bill called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (also known ad the CALM Act). This bill could prevent advertisers from forcing annoyingly loud commercials on us by making them abide to volume control guidelines.

If all goes well with the bill, the FCC will be required to "adopt industry standards that coordinate ad decibel levels to those of the regular program" within one year. These standards would then go into effect another year later.